ive, he said, "May the Lord's will be done," with the
meekest submission. His mind was all along absorbed in heavenly
thoughts, except when for a moment he would remember how the cause of
Ireland was at stake, and asked what was being done towards the election
of a nationalist M. P. for Belfast. Shortly before his death, he seemed
to fancy that he was still hearing confessions, and went on giving
imaginary absolutions, and admonishing poor sinners, till, without agony
or pain, he went to his rest. While the seven o'clock Mass was being
celebrated on the Feast of St. Malachy, in St. Malachy's Church, a
messenger ascended the altar steps and spoke some words to the
officiating priest, whereupon the congregation knew, by the manner in
which the priest suddenly bowed his head, that all was over, and that
their good pastor had departed from among them. The fact that the Bishop
of Down and Connor had passed away on the Feast of St. Malachy was not
unnoticed. A devoted priest, who had been Dr. Dorrian's friend from
boyhood, and who had made a long journey to assist him in his last
moments, remarked, "One would think that his holy patron had kept him
for his own feast in order to conduct him on that day into heaven."

CLERGYMEN.

RT. REV MGR. SEARS, Vicar-Apostolic of Newfoundland, died on Nov. 7, at
Stellarton, of dropsy. His history during the last seventeen years has
been the history of Newfoundland. His services were recognized by the
Pope, who four years ago invested him with the dignity of domestic
prelate and the title of monsignor.

THE LATE VERY REV. DR. FORAN.--The funeral of this most distinguished
priest, who after a most edifying life and three weeks of painful
illness, died a most edifying death, took place in the church of
Ballingarry. His death has cast a gloom over the archdiocese, which in
his demise has sustained a great, almost an irreparable, loss. He was
its most highly-gifted, most highly-respected, and best-beloved priest,
and upon the death of the late lamented and illustrious Dr. Leahy, if
the great majority of the votes of his brother priests could have done
it, he had been their archbishop. He was a man of great intellect, of
great good sense, of vast and varied learning, and withal simple as a
child, unselfish, unassuming, and inoffensive, meek and humble of heart;
charitable in word and deed; sincere in his relations with God and man;
tender to the poor and little ones; always attentive to his